Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-06
Political aud Personal

Rev. VIM. Hague, D. D., aged 70, dropped
dead in front of fremont Temple, Boston
Aug1.
1t is now said that Hon. j. G. Blaine will
remain in Europe during the coming
winter.
August LIST, was celebrated by the colored
people throughout the country as Emanci-
patton day. -.
Senator Sherman has followed Senator
Vest to Alaska, via the Canadian Pacific
and Puget Sound.
Augusta, Ca, New Orleans and Knoxville
Tenn, have sent invitations to the President
and his wife to make them visit.
The Chinese minister to tie United States,
Spain and Peru, Chang Ia Jen, has arrived
at London on his way to Washington
Senator John Sherman has been appointed
member of the Washington Monument
association in place of Gen. W. A. Mckee
Dunn, deceased.
The wife of President Cleveland with her
mother and an aunt, left Washington very
quietly Monday afternoon for Massachu-
setts, and expect to be absent at New Eng
land resorts for some weeks.
The Department of State at Washington.
| received August 1, from Toxic, the sad
intelligence of the death of Mrs. Hubbard.
wife of the United States minister to Japan.
Mrs. Hubbard had been in i'll health for
many months.
The National Prohibition party has issued
the following: The national committee of
the Prohibition party are hereby called to
meet IN chicago, ILL.,, on the 10Th of Novem-
Der, 1887, at 10 a. m, for the purpose of fix
| ing the time and place of the national con
ventlon in 1883, and transacting such other
business as pertains to the national conven.
ton.
Mrs Logan has returned to Washington
and it was fround necessary for her to en-
dure surgical operations for her dislocated
shoulder and elbow joints, they being
| among the I'M uries she received from her
Illinois accident. DR.. Hamilton per. ormed
the operations which Mrs. Logan endured
very well, though enfeebled by former suf.
fering.
Miss Henrietta Hill, we'll known mission
worker of Brooklyn, N. Y, has been mar
ried to Rev Jos. M. Singleton, the Chinese
evangelist, whose real name is Ju Sing, and
who is at the head of a large mission de-
VOtcu W Uuo OI GQ0 Clln0SG
in that city. Miss Hill was prominent in
social circles and the marriage causes some.
thing of a sensation.
Gen. J. W. Comfy, one of the generation
of Ohio men, distinguished during the war,
died at Toledo July 26, of heart and lung
malady. He was 55 years old and leaves
two sons and a daughter. He enlisted in
President Hayes regiment, rose to be Col
onel and Big. Gen. by breast. He conducted
| the Ohio State Journal from 1872 to 1878, in
which year he was appointed Minister to
Honolulu, and remained there until 1883.
He then bought the Toledo Commercial
which he conducted until his DEATH
A Kansas City delegation, over 100, in
Guiding ladies called on President Cleve-
land with an invitation to visit that CITY.
The invitation was accepted, the President
saying the time of his visit would be be-
tween the 1st and 18th of October The
Kansas City invitation is large volume.
handsomely bound in sealskin and bearing
on white satin panel inserted in the cover
the words: kansas City, to President
Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland Greeting.
1887" The leaves of the book contain allie
gorical figures illustrative of the resources
of Kansas City and the states of Kansas
and Missouri, Texas, Colorado and the
Indian Territory. Then follow the 21,OOO
signatures The President was introduced
to the ladies accompanying the party who